Lucian Wischik

Senior Program Manager

Microsoft

Lucian Wischik is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, in charge of Visual Basic language design. He has worked on the VB and C# compilers for five years - particularly on the new Async language feature. Before coming to Microsoft he took a PhD in concurrency theory at the University of Cambridge and worked as a researcher at Bologna University in Italy. Despite this theoretical background, he's most at home when writing practical code. He's a keen sailor and long-distance swimmer.